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• And then, just as Wilbur was settling down for his morning nap, he heard again the thin voice that had addressed him the night before. "Salutations!" said the voice. Wilbur jumped to his feet. "Salu-what?" he cried. "Salutations!" repeated the voice. "What are they, and where are you?" screamed Wilbur. "Please, please, tell me where you are. And what are salutations?" "Salutations are greetings," said the voice. "When I say 'salutations,' it's just my fancy way of saying hello or good morning.

  E. B. White

  Morning, Night, Naps

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• I ignore Hallmark Holidays. And this comes from a guy who has sold a million Opus greeting cards.

  Berkeley Breathed

  Holiday, Guy, Cards

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• There's one thing that's really great about waking up early, and it's not jogging or greeting the day - it's just that that's when they make doughnuts.

  Kathy Griffin

  Funny, Witty, Up Early

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• I'm not sure I knew what an entrepreneur was when I was ten, but I knew that starting little businesses and trying to sell greeting cards or newspapers door-to-door or just vending machine kind of thing is.. there's just something very intriguing to me about that.

  Steve Case

  Business, Doors, Entrepreneur

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• Christmas is the season of joy, of holiday greetings exchanged, of gift-giving,and of families united.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Christmas, Holiday, Giving

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• In Hawaii, we greet friends, loved ones or strangers with Aloha, which means love. Aloha is the key word to the universal spirit of real hospitality, which makes Hawaii renowned as the world's center of understanding and fellowship. Try meeting or leaving people with Aloha. You'll be surprised by their reaction. I believe it and it is my creed. Aloha to you.

  Duke Kahanamoku

  Love, Real, Believe

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• Shy gold begins to peep through the sombre green - the wattle's wedding dress - and Spring is near. Then suddenly it seems, one golden morning, the Bush awakes, a living thing. Flowers bloom, birds sing, and all the world puts on its gayest dress to greet the laughing Spring.

  C. J. Dennis

  Nature, Morning, Laughter

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• I like conventions. I like meeting and greeting. I'm perched on that edge where I'm getting more attention than I quite know what to do with, though.

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Attention, Conventions, Meetings

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• For last year's words belong to last year's language And next year's words await another voice.

  T. S. Eliot

  Inspirational, New Year, New Beginnings

  T. S. Eliot (2014). “Complete Poems and Plays, 1909-1950”, p.150, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• When I get older losing my hair many years from now. Will you still be sending me a Valentine. Birthday greetings, bottle of wine? If I'd been out till quarter to three would you lock the door? Will you still need me, will you still feed me, When I'm sixty-four?

  John Lennon

  Famous Love, Valentine, Wine

  "Fictional character: Paul". "Yellow Submarine", www.imdb.com. 1968.

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• To the future or to the past, to a time when thought is free, when men are different from one another and do not live alone— to a time when truth exists and what is done cannot be undone: From the age of uniformity, from the age of solitude, from the age of Big Brother, from the age of doublethink — greetings!

  George Orwell

  Brother, Past, Men

  George Orwell (2014). “1984”, p.25, Arcturus Publishing

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• As ships meet at sea a moment together, when words of greeting must be spoken, and then away upon the deep, so men meet in this world; and I think we should cross no man's path without hailing him, and if he needs giving him supplies.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Men, Thinking, Sea

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.118

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• When an opponent comes forward, move in and greet him; if he wants to pull back, send him on his way.

  Morihei Ueshiba

  Sports, Moving, Aikido

  "The Art of Peace" by Morihei Ueshiba, translated by John Stevens, 1992.

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• That farewell kiss which resembles greeting, that last glance of love which becomes the sharpest pang of sorrow.

  George Eliot

  Relationship, Marriage, Distance

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.3265, Delphi Classics

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• And why do English people sound smarter than the rest of us? Like they should be awarded the Nobel Prize for a simple greeting?

  Jandy Nelson

  Simple, People, Sound

  Jandy Nelson (2014). “I'll Give You the Sun”, p.101, Penguin

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• Men greet each other with a sock on the arm, women with a hug, and the hug wears better in the long run.

  Edward Hoagland

  Running, Women, Hands

  Edward Hoagland (1999). “Tigers & Ice: Reflections on Nature and Life”, p.34, Rowman & Littlefield

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• Golden retrievers are not bred to be guard dogs, and considering the size of their hearts and their irrepressible joy in life, they are less likely to bite than to bark, less likely to bark than to lick a hand in greeting. In spite of their size, they think they are lap dogs, and in spite of being dogs, they think they are also human, and nearly every human they meet is judged to have the potential to be a boon companion who might, at many moment, cry, "Let's go!" and lead them on a great adventure.

  Dean Koontz

  Dog, Heart, Adventure

  Dean Koontz (2007). “The Darkest Evening of the Year: A Novel”, p.69, Bantam

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• I gave the prescribed Metropolitan Police "first greeting". "Oi!" I said "What do you think you're doing?

  Ben Aaronovitch

  Thinking, Police, Firsts

  Ben Aaronovitch (2011). “Midnight Riot”, p.12, Del Rey

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• Not greeting people isn't enough. One also doesn't greet people one doesn't know.

  Karl Kraus

  People, Enough, Acquaintance

  Karl Kraus (1976). “Half-truths & One-and-a-half Truths: Selected Aphorisms”

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• . . .this prayer I make, Knowing that Nature never did betray The heart that loved her; 't is her privilege, Through all the years of this our life, to lead From joy to joy: for she can so inform The mind that is within us, so impress With quietness and beauty, and so feed With lofty thoughts, that neither evil tongues, Rash judgments, nor the sneers of selfish men, Nor greetings where no kindness is, nor all The dreary intercourse of daily life, Shall e'er prevail against us, or disturb Our cheerful faith, that all which we behold Is full of blessings.

  William Wordsworth

  Nature, Kindness, Prayer

  William Wordsworth (1992). “Favorite Poems”, p.24, Courier Corporation

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• I'm interested in humor, and greeting cards just happen to be a perfect medium for my message. They're accessible to everyone, and thanks to all the advances that have been made by environmentally conscientious printers, I can get my message across while keeping my carbon footprint relatively small.

  Anne Taintor

  Carbon Footprint, Perfect, Cards

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• The other Dons in the room applauded and rose to shake hands with everybody in sight and to congratulate Don Corleone and Don Tattaglia on their new friendship. It was not perhaps the warmest friendship in the world, they would not send each other Christmas gift greetings, but they would not murder each other. That was friendship enough in this world, all that was needed.

  Mario Puzo

  Sight, Hands, Rose

  Mario Puzo (2002). “The Godfather”, N A L Trade

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• So when the world knocks at your front door,
  clutch the knob and open on up,
  running forward into its widespread greeting arms
  with your hands before you,
  fingertips trembling though they may be.

  Anis Mojgani

  Running, Doors, Hands

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• Probably my favorite piece of music, as an album taken as a whole, is Bruce Springsteen's 'Greetings from Asbury Park.' I just think it's incredibly pure. It's a sound that sort of broke new ground, and I think it paved the way for a hundred people that sound very similar.

  Shane Black

  Taken, Thinking, People

  Interview with Steve Head, www.ign.com. October 21, 2005.

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• Shake hands with Pain, give greeting unto Grief, Those angels in disguise, and thy glad soul From height to height, from star to shining star, Shall climb and claim blest immortality.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Stars, Pain, Grief

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